Literary usage of Sea cradle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century: Lectures Delivered at Oxford by James Anthony Froude (1895)"... sea cradle OP THE REFORMATION JEAN PAUL, the German poet, said that God had
given to France the empire of the land, to England the empire of the sea, ..."

2.The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1907)"... (Hal lot-is), sea cradle, keyhole limpet, the squid and many others. Most of
the collecting done here is along shore, though a gasoline ..."

3.Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1842)"... Upon the laughing waters, that are wandering below He lifted the dead girl,
and is away To where a light boat in its moorings lay, Like a sea-cradle, ..."

4.Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1859)"The sailors, true to the tradition of their sea-cradle, mark their arms with blue.
The soldiers use gunpowder ; and I have seen one wild mercenary fighter ..."